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Nine years ago I spent a whole day in a careful but 
unsuccessful search for this plant in the same neighbour- 
hood, and it was with much pleasure I saw Mr. Nix’s speci- 
men this year, as the only examples of this hybrid which I 
had previously seen were those which Mr. H. C. Watson 
has from time to time distributed through the Botanical 
Exchange Club. Mr. Watson’s plant came originally from 
Cornwall, where it was collected by the late Rev. C. A. 
Johns many years ago, and this plant having been trans- 
planted to Mr. Watson’s garden, has been the principal 
source from which British botanists have obtained speci- 
mens. Knowing the rarity of the occurrence of this plant 
in a wild state, I urged Mr. Nix to procure a root from the 
locality where he discovered it, and to the united kindness 
of this gentleman and his brother the Section is indebted 
for a sight of the living plant now exhibited. 
From a paragraph in the report of the Botanical Ex- 
change Club, which has appeared during the last three 
weeks, we learn that Mr. Cunnack of Heiston, with Mr. 
Blow, also found this hybrid last year, on a barren moor 
between Truro and Penryn. 
Mr. Nix’s plant has affinities with both its supposed 
parents. It differs from Erica Tetralix in its longer and 
larger corolla, which is pear-shaped rather than urceolate in 
form through a rather sudden contraction in the uppermost 
half ; in its having a herbaceous bract at the base of each 
pedicel ; and in its more numerous barren branches. 
It differs from Erica ciliaris in its less leafy habit and 
more spreading branches; in its more raceme-like inflor- 
escence ; and in its stamens, which have two minute, short- 
ly- ciliate, subulate awns. Its leaves have more affinity 
with those of E. ciliaris both in shape and pubescence, but 
it is destitute of all glands at the extremities of the cilia 
of the margin of the leaf; this feature is the more noteworthy 
as the cilia in Mr. Watson’s specimens are nearly all 
